Frederic-Georges Herr

Frederic-Georges Herr (7 May 1855-27 October 1932) was a General in the French Army during World War I.

Biography
Frederic-Georges Herr was born in Neuf-Brisach, France in 1855, the son of an Alsatian surgeon who emigrated to France after Prussia's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian War. He entered the Ecole polytechnique in 1874, took part in the colonization of Madagascar from 1895 to 1902, and became a General of Division at the start of World War I in 1914. Herr went on to fight at Les Eparges in 1915 and the Battle of Verdun in 1916, and he left the service in 1919 and died in 1932.